Israel Adesanya and Jon Jones won't stop taking shots at each other.
On Sunday, Adesanya took to his Twitter account and reignited the tone by writing "Hey p— you still there ... @JonnyBones."
Despite Jones vowing that Adesanya couldn't bait him into verbal jabs until 2021, the UFC's reigning light heavyweight champion fired back by tweeting a picture of Adesanya getting oxygen following his sole knockout loss as a professional kickboxer. Jones accompanied the image by writing: "Wasting all that good oxygen. Someone wake this b— up and change his tampon."
Adesanya not only responded, ripping Jones about his string of arrests and indiscretions, but he also blasted "Bones" for deleting his own tweet. Part of Adesanya's post read: "Did he do a post & delete Dwight? I been ko’d once and I never made that mistake again. How many times you been arrested?"
The UFC middleweight champion's latest shots at Jones comes days after he told ESPN that "Bones" is "throwing it all away," referring to Jones' arrest last month and subsequent guilty plea for aggravated DWI.
“He’s a young black man at the top of his game and he’s throwing it all away,” Adesanya told ESPN last week. “A lot of what DC (Daniel Cormier) said, same thing. Like, I felt bad for him when I watched the body cam footage as well. At the end, when he was just sobbing, I felt bad for him. Because I can imagine myself in that position.
"And I even bet you in the back of the squad car, he’s thinking, ‘F—, Israel’s gonna have a lot of material with this one,’" he continued. "I bet you. I swear to God. But, like I said, a lot of it’s never going to see the light of day because it’s funny for me but at the same time I feel sad to see a young, black, skinny [expletive] who wishes he had the career at the beginning like I am right now, and he’s just throwing it all away."
These recurring verbal assaults could lead toward an eventual meeting in the Octagon, so Jones and Adesanya can settle things once and for all. Perhaps 2021 will be the year, as Jones alluded to.